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'A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder' wins Tony

Mark Kennedy AP Drama Writer

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06/08/2014 09:15:06 PM MDT

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FILE - This undaed file theater image released by The O+M Company Jefferson Mays, center, during a performance of "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York. The musical romp in which a poor man comically eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, is nominated for 10 Tony Awards, including best musical. The Tony Awards will be held on Sunday, June 8 in New York. (AP Photo/The O+M Company, Joan Marcus, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" has gotten a lot of love — it has nabbed the best new musical Tony Award.

The romp of a musical, in which a poor man comically eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, beat out "Aladdin," ''After Midnight" and "Beautiful — The Carole King Musical."

In the show, Bryce Pinkham discovers he's ninth in line to inherit a fortune, so he decides to eliminate the eight heirs of the D'Ysquith family standing in his way. Jefferson Mays plays all eight victims — two women and six men.

A steady draw since it opened in March, the musical features a book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, and wry lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak.

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